Lorna

Lorna
Lorna f
English and Scottish: invented by R. D. Blackmore for the heroine of his novel Lorna Doone (1869), child captive of the outlawed Doones on Exmoor, who is eventually discovered to be in reality Lady Lorna Dugal, daughter of the Earl of Dugal. Blackmore seems to have derived the name from the Scottish placename Lorn(e) (Gaelic Latharna), a territory in Argyll. The given name is now popular in Scotland.

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